Evidence to know Genesis is literal

Brian Kuehmichel
10/26/2010, updated Feb. 2012

"Creation is foundational for the Christian church
with every major Christian doctrine coming out of the events recorded in the first chapters of
Genesis. Among these are: 1) the nature of God, including his power and goodness, 2) the nature
of man, created in the image of God but fallen because of his sin, 3) the nature and consequences
of sin, 4) the nature of marriage, 5) the origin of death as a penalty for sin, and an enemy,
6) the need for a Saviour to redeem man from sin, 7) the origin and meaning of work and the weekly
day of rest, and 8) the relationship between man and the rest of creation, which is now cursed
because of sin, 9) and much more." Quote from Tas Walker at:
http://creation.com/

[Some] "... believe that one can 'spiritualize' away the history of the first
chapters of Genesis ... . They argue that these chapters are not history but something like parables. This
type of thinking depreciates the factual content, which gives information about history and the cosmos. Those
who do this sometimes imagine that doing this makes little or no difference. But it changes everything. For
these chapters tell us the why of our own personal history. For this reason we can say that ... the early
chapters of Genesis are ... the very foundation on which all knowledge rests. So we learn from them that
before the creation of the universe, the infinite-personal God existed and that He created the universe
(the space-time continuum) by choice, out of nothing. The Creation was not without a cause [emphasis in original]."
US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in Whatever Happened to the Human Race? pp. 162-163

The earth was prepared, the mature plants with seeds brought forth, the heavens set in motion,
the animals of the sea and sky and land were brought forth upon earth, and man was created
and placed in the garden prepared for him. Then God gave to man information about what
He had done and conveyed it in distinct, discernable terms conveying abundant information.
This information is unknowable to man except by outside revelation. In this information God
answered some basic questions which man would ask in these types of questions: